Matthew Pinsent
Sir Matthew Pinsent won four consecutive Olympic gold medals. He tweets at @matthewcpinsent
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Doublespeak about assisted suicide
The campaign for assisted suicide is distinctly Orwellian